While it's perfectly acceptable to celebrate St David's Day, positively expected that the whole world will want to celebrate St Patrick's Day – as usual, the Patron Saint of England will be largely ignored by the entire country as somebody, somewhere has decreed that there's a very slight possibility that there may be someone, somewhere who could be offended if anyone should have the audacity to hang out some red and white bunting.

Have you (honestly) ever met anyone, anywhere in the entire world who claims they would really, genuinely be even a tad miffed if you dared raise a pint of real ale and wave an England flag out of your bedroom window in order to pay homage to our homeland?

Why are we as a nation so bothered about what others might think that we are prepared to foresake a damned good excuse for a national knees-up?